SINGAPORE and CHICAGO, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Aon Corporation
(NYSE: AOC), the world’s leading provider of global risk management and
consulting services, today announced Jim Finnamore will join the firm in
January as regional director of Aon Environmental Services Group, Asia-Pacific.
Based in Singapore, he will coordinate the delivery of the unit’s services to
clients in the APAC region.

Finnamore brings over 15 years of industry experience to Aon. He has held
senior broking and underwriting positions with brokers and insurance companies
in Europe, Bermuda and Asia. Most recently, Finnamore served as senior vice
president for Marsh, where he developed and managed the company’s
environmental liability practice for Asia.

He has managed all forms of environmental insurance, including
site-specific liability, remediation cost overrun and lender liability
programs. Finnamore’s specialized experience consists of extensive work in
risk assessment, guaranteed maximum cost remediation contracts and financial
modeling of exposures for industrial, insurance and banking clients. He also
has advised governments and industry on a range of environmental matters, and
was involved in placements of coverage for merger and acquisition transactions,
large industrial accounts, construction projects and the international
operations of global corporations.

Ted Hodgkinson, Aon’s chief commercial officer for the APAC region, added,
“Jim leads by example, and will offer Aon’s clients in this region of the
world the distinctive value and innovative solutions required to meet this
overwhelming demand.”

Finnamore earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Imperial College
in London and was one of three international recipients of Risk & Insurance
Magazine’s Power Broker designation in 2008. He has authored numerous
articles and guidance documents for private firms and governmental agencies.

About Aon

Aon Corporation (NYSE: AOC) is the leading global provider of risk
management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital
consulting. Through its 36,000 colleagues worldwide, Aon readily delivers
distinctive client value via innovative and effective risk management and
workforce productivity solutions. Our industry-leading global resources,
technical expertise and industry knowledge are delivered locally through more
than 500 offices in more than 120 countries. Aon was named the world’s best
broker by Euromoney magazine’s 2008 Insurance Survey. In 2008, Aon ranked
highest on the Business Insurance ranking of the world’s largest insurance
brokers based on commercial retail, wholesale, reinsurance and personal lines
brokerage revenues. Aon also was ranked by A.M. Best as the number one
insurance broker based on brokerage revenues in 2007 and 2008, and was voted
best insurance intermediary, best reinsurance intermediary, and best employee
benefits consulting firm in 2007 and 2008 by the readers of Business Insurance.
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